“Knowing how to die costs a lifetime.”
Voces (1943)
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Italian Argentinian poet 1885–1968Related quotes

“We know how we were born, but know not how we will die.”

“To die in Paris costs a pretty penny.”
Il en coûte bien cher pour mourir à Paris.
Les Etourdis, Act I., Sc. II. — (Daiglemoni).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 56.

“the tired sunsets and the tired
people -
it takes a lifetime to die and
no time at
all.”

“I’ll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.”
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)

“That man lives badly who does not know how to die well.”
On Tranquility of the Mind

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